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Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware products 

Indian – Computer Emergency Response Team (https://www.cert-in.org.in)

Severity Rating: CRITICAL

Software Affected

VMware vCenter Server version prior to 8.0 U2d, 8.0 U1e and 7.0 U3r

VMware Cloud Foundation versions 4.x & 5.x

Overview

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in VMware products which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges on the targeted system.

Target Audience:

Enterprises and large organizations, Cloud providers, and industries with IT environments utilizing VMware products.

Risk Assessment:

High risk of unauthorized access, data exposure and client-side code execution.

Impact Assessment:

Remote code execution, Privilege escalation.

Description

VMware provides virtualization software solutions that enable organizations to create and manage virtual machines (VMs), allowing multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in VMware products due to heap-overflow in the implementation of the DCERPC protocol and misconfiguration of sudo. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending specially crafted network requests on the targeted system.

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges on the targeted system.

Solution

Apply appropriate updates as mentioned by the vendor:

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24453

Vendor Information

VMware

https://www.vmware.com/

References

VMware

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24453

CVE Name

CVE-2024-37079

CVE-2024-37080

CVE-2024-37081

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Thanks and Regards,

CERT-In

Incident Response Help Desk

e-mail: incident@cert-in.org.in

Phone: +91-11-22902657

Toll Free Number: 1800-11-4949

Toll Free Fax : 1800-11-6969

Web: http://www.cert-in.org.in

PGP Fingerprint: A768 083E 4475 5725 B81A A379 2156 C0C0 B620 D0B4

PGP Key information:

https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=CONTACTUS

Postal address:

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Government of India

Electronics Niketan

6, C.G.O. Complex

New Delhi-110 003

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